posted a customer review on a shopping site such as Amazon.com?
posted a comment on a news story or blog?
posted a video to the web?
posted photos on the web?
How about your parents? grandparents? How did consumers and citizens get this kind of information in the past?
The Chaos Scenario
According to On the Media host Bob Garfield, we are in the midst of a new world order. In his book The Chaos ScenarioGarfield digs into the digital revolution that he says will devastate mass media, and make you the next mogul. Read pp. 12-15 in the Introduction to The Chaos Scenario
*For more on the Lego story, listen to the Talk of the Nation Interview with Bob Garfield (the Lego story starts @ 12:34)
Use TypeWith.meto collectively answer the question: How has the "digital revolution" changed the power and responsibility relationships between producers and consumers?
See their collaborative response here.
"More knowledgeable consumers, more educated, more connected with one another, more able to do things together. Consumption, in that sense, is and expression of their productive potential . . . turn[ing] users into producers; consumers into designers." ~Leadbeater, TED Talk on Innovation
Exit Ticket
What does it mean to be a "pro-am" (Leadbeater) or a "prosumer" (Tapscott)? Give some examples from your own life.
Thursday, Sept. 2
Terms/Concepts to Know
sitcom
GDP Wikipedia"talk pages"
cognitive + surplus = "cognitive surplus"
Intro to Cognitive Surplus
Watch Clay Shirky on "Where do people find the time" (Part 1, 1:46-7:02)
Discuss Cognitive Surplus
Wikipedia vs. TV watching Wikipedia = 100,000,000 hours total TV = 200,000,000,000 hours in U.S. in one year U.S. TV = 2,000 Wikipedia projects per year U.S. TV ads in ONE weekend = a Wikipedia project
Clay Shirky TED Talks
Divide students in half: each half watches a different TED Talk
Open the interactive transcript to follow along as you listen to the talk
Select key words, phrases, and sentences to add to the collective note-taking in TypeWith.me
Whole class discussion of Clay Shirky's ideas - synthesize the ideas from both talks "Until the lion tells his side of the story, tales of the hunt will always glorify the hunter." ~African proverb Witness: See it. Film it. Change it.Uses video to open the eyes of the world to human rights violations.
What is Web 2.0?
Before viewing the video clip students will organize the transcript of Wesch's video.
Poetic transcription of the video available here on Wesch's blog Digital text is above all…hyper.
hypertext can link With form separated from content, users did not need to know complicated code to upload content to the web, "There's a blog born every half second." and it’s not just text… two sites can “mash” data together Who will organize all of this data? we will we are the web
Web 2.0 is linking people… …people sharing, tracing, and collaborating… We’ll need to rethink copyright, authorship, identity, ethics, aesthetics, rhetorics, governance, privacy, commerce, love, family, ourselves
The Machine is Us/ing Us
Video by Michael Wesch "Web 2.0 in just under 5 minutes. [Wesch] was inspired to make this video while writing a paper about web 2.0. Struggling to find a way to put it into words, [he] decided to make this video to show it rather than tell it."
The story behind the video . . .
The music is from an Ivory Coast musician shared via Creative Commons
Wesch uploaded the video on the Wednesday before the Super Bowl
By Friday, 2 days after uploading, it had 253 views
On Saturday it was up to 1,000
On Super Bowl Sunday it was in the top 5 on YouTube
On Monday after Super Bowl it was #1 above Super Bowl ads that cost $6 million to produce
1 million viewers in first 2 weeks, to date well over 3 million on YouTube alone
This video went viral because people posted to Digg, tagged it on Delicious, etc.
So What Does This Mean for Us?
How is the new media landscape having us re-think . . . ?
Debrief video with gallery walk/chalk talk protocol - key terms each on different piece of chart paper around the room: copyright, authorship, identity, ethics, aesthetics, rhetorics, governance, privacy, commerce, love, family, ourselves
Table of Contents
Monday, Aug. 30
You Are What You Share
We-thinkby Charles Leadbeater(chapters 1-3 available online)Read Excerpt from We-Think (pp. 3-4 of Chapter 1) Engage in the Text Rendering Experience
We-Think Introduction
Animation outlining the ideas in the book . . .the audience is taking to the stage . . . mass innovation . . . you are what you share
Terms/Concepts to Know
Jot down vocabulary terms from Leadbeater's talk - listen for context clues to add/revise definitionsR&D
SMS
patents
disruptive innovation
open-source
many-to-many
"pro-ams"
Watch the first half of Charles Leadbeater's TED Talk on innovation
Tuesday, Aug. 31
Sign in to the 21cGL wikiWe-Think Questions
Answer questions from We-Think Video on the wiki
Sign your responses using four tildes (~) in a row followed by your username
Watch the second half of Charles Leadbeater's TED Talk on innovation
*More presentations by Charles Leadbeater: We-Think videos
Wednesday, Sept. 1
Consumers Become Producers --> "Prosumers"
Questionairre: Have you ever . . .
How about your parents? grandparents?
How did consumers and citizens get this kind of information in the past?
The Chaos Scenario
According to On the Media host Bob Garfield, we are in the midst of a new world order.In his book The Chaos ScenarioGarfield digs into the digital revolution that he says will devastate mass media, and make you the next mogul.
Read pp. 12-15 in the Introduction to The Chaos Scenario
*For more on the Lego story, listen to the Talk of the Nation Interview with Bob Garfield (the Lego story starts @ 12:34)
Use TypeWith.meto collectively answer the question:
How has the "digital revolution" changed the power and responsibility relationships between producers and consumers?
See their collaborative response here.
"More knowledgeable consumers, more educated, more connected with one another, more able to do things together. Consumption, in that sense, is and expression of their productive potential . . . turn[ing] users into producers; consumers into designers." ~Leadbeater, TED Talk on Innovation
Exit Ticket
What does it mean to be a "pro-am" (Leadbeater) or a "prosumer" (Tapscott)?Give some examples from your own life.
Thursday, Sept. 2
Terms/Concepts to Know
sitcomGDP
Wikipedia"talk pages"
cognitive + surplus = "cognitive surplus"
Intro to Cognitive Surplus
Watch Clay Shirky on "Where do people find the time" (Part 1, 1:46-7:02)Discuss Cognitive Surplus
Wikipedia vs. TV watchingWikipedia = 100,000,000 hours total
TV = 200,000,000,000 hours in U.S. in one year
U.S. TV = 2,000 Wikipedia projects per year
U.S. TV ads in ONE weekend = a Wikipedia project
Clay Shirky TED Talks
Divide students in half: each half watches a different TED TalkClay Shirky: How cognitive surplus will change the world
Wordle: Clay Shirky on Cognitive Surplus
Clay Shirky: How social media can make history
Wordle: Clay Shirky on Social Media
Friday, Sept. 3
Social Media and Web 2.0
Whole class discussion of Clay Shirky's ideas - synthesize the ideas from both talks"Until the lion tells his side of the story, tales of the hunt will always glorify the hunter." ~African proverb
Witness: See it. Film it. Change it.Uses video to open the eyes of the world to human rights violations.
What is Web 2.0?
Before viewing the video clip students will organize the transcript of Wesch's video.Poetic transcription of the video available here on Wesch's blog
Digital text is above all…hyper.
hypertext can link
With form separated from content, users did not need to know complicated code to upload content to the web,
"There's a blog born every half second."
and it’s not just text…
two sites can “mash” data together
Who will organize all of this data?
we will
we are the web
Web 2.0 is linking people…
…people sharing, tracing, and collaborating…
We’ll need to rethink copyright, authorship, identity, ethics, aesthetics, rhetorics, governance, privacy, commerce, love, family, ourselves
The Machine is Us/ing Us
Video by Michael Wesch"Web 2.0 in just under 5 minutes. [Wesch] was inspired to make this video while writing a paper about web 2.0. Struggling to find a way to put it into words, [he] decided to make this video to show it rather than tell it."
The story behind the video . . .
So What Does This Mean for Us?
How is the new media landscape having us re-think . . . ?
Debrief video with gallery walk/chalk talk protocol - key terms each on different piece of chart paper around the room:
copyright, authorship, identity, ethics, aesthetics, rhetorics, governance, privacy, commerce, love, family, ourselves
*As seen in the video - Internet Archive: Wayback Machine
See early days of Facebook, CNN on 9-11, etc.